Test 4 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous

«daddy longlegs is the deadliest spider but its fangs are too short, my teacher said» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: daddy longlegs, deadliest spider, teacher · What happens: be, say · To what, where: deadliest spider · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 188 «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 spider	punct
2	daddy	daddy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 longlegs	compound
3	longlegs	longleg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spider	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 spider	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spider	det
6	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 spider	amod
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 short	nsubj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 fangs	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fangs	nmod:poss
10	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spider	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 short	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 short	advmod
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 teacher	nmod:poss
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 short	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 short	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	daddy longlegs	the deadliest spider but its fangs		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	the deadliest spider but its fangs		short property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	my teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present			right property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

It has no legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 legs	det
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2

Right, its fangs are too short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 short	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fangs	nmod:poss
4	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 short	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 short	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	its fangs					short property	tree rules

Option 3

Right, it kills more people than snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 kills	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kills	nsubj
4	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kills	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 snakes	case
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kills	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	it	more people				than snakes	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That is a myth; harvestmen have no venom and cellar spiders weak venom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 myth	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
6	harvestmen	harvestman	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 venom	det
9	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spiders	compound
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cellar	cc
11	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 venom	conj
12	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
13	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 venom	amod
14	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a myth					tree rules
2	have	present	harvestmen	venom spiders					tree rules

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